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What is Nutritional supplements?

A dietary supplement, also known as food supplement or nutritional supplement, is a preparation intended to supply nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, fatty acids or amino acids, that are missing or are not consumed in sufficient quantity in a person's diet. Some countries define dietary supplements as foods, while in others they are defined as drugs.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
General health 6 1 Efficacy_moderate
Other 3 0
Parkinson's Disease 2 0
Fatigue 1 0
Weight gain 1 1 Efficacy_moderate
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) 1 0

See all 18 patients currently taking Nutritional supplements

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 2

Reported Dosages

Frequently reported dosages based on patients currently taking Nutritional supplements. See all 15 dosages ►

  1 other daily 12 g daily 20 mg daily 200 mg daily 200 mcg daily 300 mg daily 400 mg daily 500 mg daily 2,400 mg daily 2,500 intl units daily
  3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Nutritional supplements (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Personal research 1   Personal research: 33%
Other 1   Other: 33%

See all 2 patients who’ve stopped taking Nutritional supplements

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Nutritional supplements

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0
0

Stopped Taking Nutritional supplements

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Nutritional supplements

Always
 1 50%
Usually
 1 50%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Nutritional supplements

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 2 100%
Not at all
 0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Nutritional supplements

$200+
 1 50%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 1 50%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 0 0%

Report created on May 28, 2012.